President Trump’s Next SCOTUS Nominee could be Ted Cruz? [Video]

President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch is facing a Democrat filibuster, so where does Ted Cruz fit into this equation? It all has to do with known when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em. The Democrat strategy to stymie anything Trump may come to bite them on the butt if they filibuster now. If they make Trump use the nuclear option now, Ted Cruz could be the next batter up.

As Written By Onan Coca for Constitution:

New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters appeared on MSNBC today to talk about the Democrats decision to filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch, a man who by all accounts is eminently qualified to become the next associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Gorsuch was was unanimously confirmed to the federal bench some ten years ago, he has been in the majority opinion 97% of the time, and he has only had 1 opinion overruled by the Supreme Court. He has earned the accolades of both conservatives and liberals and he has had some very prominent legal scholars and politicians (again, from both sides of the aisle) speak out for his confirmation. Sadly, the Democrats don’t care how qualified the man is, they plan to do their best to scuttle his nomination any way they can.

Peters argues that this is a short-sighted mistake of gargantuan proportions.

“When the Democrats changed that rule in 2013, they opened the door for this to happen. What Democrats right now are being a little short-sighted about… is that you don’t know what’s going to happen on the next Supreme Court fight. You don’t know how politically weakened Trump will be. You don’t know what kind of nominee he puts forward. So to waste this bullet now, seems awfully short-sighted…

And the next one, we know, now he will have carte blanche. He could say, ‘You know what? I’m going to nominate Ted Cruz, Democrats, because you screwed around with me last time. You tried to block my nominee who by all accounts did a very good job in his confirmation hearings, and has unquestionable qualifications.’”……

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